Megan Shearer defends dissertation
On June 27, 2022, Megan Shearer successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, "Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning."
Congratulations, Dr. Shearer! We wish you a bright…
Solving Structured Hierarchical Games Using Differential Backward Induction
Z Li, F Jia, A Mate, S Jabbari, M Chakraborty, M Tambe, and Y Vorobeychik
38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), PMLR 180: pp. 1107–1117, August 2022
Previous version presented at ICLR Workshop on Gamification…
Evaluating Strategy Exploration in Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis
Y Wang, Q Ma and MP Wellman
21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1346—1354, May 2022.
Abstract
In empirical game-theoretic analysis (EGTA), game models are extended iteratively through…
Stability Effects of Arbitrage in Exchange Traded Funds: An Agent-Based Model
M Shearer, D Byrd, TH Balch, and MP Wellman
2nd ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), Article No.: 49, pages 1–9, November 2021.
Abstract
An index-based exchange traded fund (ETF) with underlying securities that trade on…
Timing is Money: The Impact of Arrival Order in Beta-Bernoulli Prediction Markets
B Martin, S Kutty, and M Chakraborty
2nd ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), Article No.: 41, pages 1–9, November 2021.
Abstract
Prediction markets are incentive-based mechanisms for eliciting and combining the diffused,…
An Agent-Based Model of Strategic Adoption of Real-Time Payments
K Mayo, S Fozdar, and MP Wellman
2nd ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), Article No.: 45, pages 1–9, November 2021.
Abstract
Real-time payments (RTPs) allow consumers to receive funds before the completion of payment…
Building Action Sets in a Deep Reinforcement Learner
Y Wang, A Sinha, S CH-Wang, and MP Wellman
20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA-21), pages 484–489, December 2021.
Abstract
In many policy-learning applications, the agent may execute a set of actions…
Designing a Combinatorial Financial Options Market
X Wang, DM Pennock, NR Devanur, DM Rothschild, B Tao, and MP Wellman
22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), pages 864-883, July 2021.
Abstract
Financial options are contracts that specify the right to buy or sell an underlying…
Megan Shearer defends thesis proposal
On June 1 2021, Megan Shearer presented and successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled "Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning".
The dissertation committee comprises:
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